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Article: The X-factor; Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy has learned a lot about the power of culture. Now she and her team need to show that the turnaround has a second act.(CEO OF THE YEAR)(Interview)(Company overview)
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- June 1, 2008
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The choice for the 2008 Chief Executive of the Year marks several firsts. By her own admission Anne Mulcahy did not set out to become a chief executive. Nor was she groomed to become one. Neither did she bargain to face what some have called the turnaround of the century when her predecessor, Paul Allaire, called her into his office one day in 2001 to say that the top job was hers. Allaire himself returned to the company at the request of the board when Xerox dumped Allaire's chosen successor Rick Thoman. Fortune dubbed her "The Accidental CEO." One might add "Improbable Tumaround CEO," since everyone knows tumaround bosses tend to come from the outside. (Former Lee ...
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